PRUNELLA CAKE

% cup butter or shortening.

1 cup sugar.

2 eggs.

2/3 cup sour milk.

1 1/3 cups flour.

2/3 cups stewed prunes.

% teaspoon each of soda, salt, cinna- mon, nutmeg, all spice, baking powder.

Cream butter, sugar and eggs. Add chopped prunes. Stir in milk. Add sifted dry ingredients. Bake in mod- erate oven, 350°, about 25 minutes.

CREAMY PRUNE ICING. 2 cups confectioner’s sugar. Yo teaspoon cinnamon, 1/8 teaspoon salt.

Combine half with 2 tablespoons butter. Add remaining sugar, 2 table- spoons of prune juice and 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Beat until creamy.

N.B.—Prunella cake may be baked in layer tins and date filling between and a seven-minute frosting on top.

—Mrs. A. N. McDonald.

SULTANA CAKE.

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°%4 |b. sugar.

1 cup sour cream.

34 |b. flour.

34 lb. sultana raisins.

Pinch salt.

2 teaspoons baking powder.

D eggs.

Rind and juice of 2 lemons. Bake in slow oven one hour.

—Mrs. A. L. Beaubien.

WHIPPED CREAM CAKE.

1 cup cream, whipped.

1 cup sugar.

2 eggs.

1, teaspoon salt.

1 teaspoon vanilla.

1% cups Swansdown cake flour. 2144 teaspoons baking powder.

Method — Whip cream, add sugar gradually, beating with egg beater until dissolved, add the eggs. Beat again, Add salt and vanilla. Add baking pow- der to flour and sift 3 times. Fold into the creamed mixture. Bake in moder- ate oven 350 F. for 35 minutes.

—Mrs. W. M. Johnston.

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WATER POUND CAKE.

Scant Yo lb. butter, take out 1 teaspoon and replace with 1 teaspoon lard.

2 cups white sugar.

4 eggs, separately, each mixed in by

hand.

cups flour.

cup lukewarm water.

teaspoons baking powder.

Bake in loaf tin. Cherries, citron,

chopped almonds are nice added.

—Mrs. W. Crossman.

FUDGE CAKE. % cup butter (melted). 1 cup brown sugar. 1 egg. 4 tablespoons cocoa. % cup nuts (chopped). 4 cup flour. Vanilla.

Method—Mix in order given and bake in oven about 400 F. Ice with chocolate icing while hot.

—Mrs. L. T. Simmons.

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BUTTERSCOTCH CAKE, eggs. cup white sugar. cup flour. teaspoon baking powder. 1% teaspoon salt. Vanilla.

Heat half cup milk, melt in two tablespoons shortening and add_ to eggs and sugar.

While hot spread over top the fol- lowing which has been cooked:

) tablespoons brown sugar. 3 tablespoons butter.

Y% cup cocoanut.

2 tablespoons cream.

Boil 2 minutes and spread. Brown in oven for 1 minute.

—Marion Crossman.

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POINSETTIA CAKE. 2 cups sifted Swansdown flour. 2 teaspoons baking powder. 4 teaspoon salt. 1% teaspoons grated orange rind. 2/3 cup butter or shortening. 1 cup sugar. 3 egg yolks, well beaten. 1/3 cup milk. 3 egg whites, stiffly beaten. Method—-Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder, salt, and sift to-